{"id":3767,"date":"2023-03-06T04:31:31","date_gmt":"2023-03-05T23:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=3767"},"modified":"2025-03-26T19:16:51","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T13:46:51","slug":"army-court-martial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/army-court-martial\/","title":{"rendered":"Army Court Martial"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Army Court Martial:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>A court-martial has been granted the authority <strong>to judge the guilt of members of the armed forces <\/strong>which is subject to military law, and, in the case, if the accused or defendant is found guilty, to decide upon punishment which they have to carry.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>What is the legal provision related to court martial in India?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>The <strong>Armed Forces Tribunal Act 2007<\/strong> was passed by the Parliament and led to the formation of the Armed Forces Tribunal.<\/li>\n<li>This tribunal is empowered with the adjudication of disputes and complaints concerning the commission, appointments, enrolments and conditions of service in respect of persons subject to <strong>the Army Act, 1950, The Navy Act, 1957 and the Air Force Act, 1950<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Composition of the Armed Forces Tribunal<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>The Judicial Members are <strong>retired High Court Judges<\/strong> and Administrative Members are <strong>retired Members of the Armed Forces<\/strong> who have held the rank of Major General\/ equivalent or above for a period of three years or more.<\/li>\n<li>Judge Advocate General (JAG) who has held the appointment for at least one year is also entitled to be appointed as the Administrative Member.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>There are <strong>four kinds<\/strong> of courts-martial in India namely; General Court Martial (GCM), District Court Martial (DCM), Summary General Court Martial (SGCM) and Summary Court Martial (SCM).<\/li>\n<li>Under the Army Act, army courts can try personnel for all kinds of offences, <strong>except for murder and rape of a civilian<\/strong>, which are primarily tried by a <strong>civilian court of law.<\/strong>\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><strong>Pardoning power:<\/strong> The <strong>president of India<\/strong> can use his judicial power <strong>under Article 72<\/strong> of the Constitution to pardon, reprieve, respite or remission of punishment or sentence given by a court martial.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1)Who can remove the High court judges in India?<\/h3>\n<p>The constitution provides that a judge can be removed only by an order of the president, based on a motion passed by both houses of parliament. The procedure for removal of judges is elaborated in the Judges Inquiry Act, 1968.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/india\/court-martial-suggests-life-term-to-captain-for-staged-encounter\/articleshow\/98436258.cms?from=mdr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Court martial suggests life term to Captain for staged encounter<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Armed Forces Tribunal Act 2007 was passed by the Parliament and led to the formation of the Armed Forces Tribunal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":3768,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3767","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3767\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}